Chicago Startups are about to get a blast of acceleration which will shower the technology scene like water from a firehose. 1871 is a new Digital Startup Center and it is coming in just a few months to the 12th floor of that juggernaut on the Chicago River we know as the Merchandise Mart. The not-for-profit innovation, collaboration, and mentoring space will offer its 50,000 sqft of space to more than 320 of our city's brightest new innovators.

On Wednesday, January 18th, 2012, we Changed the World of Democracy. Heck the word Democracy changed that day. Or at least Democracy's previous definition became a little more accurate that day.

radugadesign, a Russian media design studio, has a new take on that innovative use of the digital projection called 3D Video Mapping (or sometimes just 4D Projection). It's creativity like this that's Changing the World.

In this video from Forbes, Sean Parker gives some WorldChanging advice to two young entrepreneurs. Three times, Parker reinforces that above all else the most important thing for an entrepreneurial startup to possess is a team that can execute on a vision, whatever that vision might be.

All of us have, at one time or another, encountered a set of those funky, distorted characters of a CAPTCHA code. But did you know that on the majority of sites, when you type the characters you see, you are participating in the reCaptcha massive-scale online collaboration project to digitize the world's books?

The World of Email is Changing. There is a long-overdue shift happening in which Email is being replaced by more effective & immediate ways of sharing information. And whenever we begin talking about the evaporation of email, someone in the room always asks, "So which Social Network is going to win?" The answer is none of them. But before I get into that, let's take a look at what's actually happening.

It's almost time for South by Southwest!! Every March, some of the most creative, innovative, and revolutionary ideas of the Changing World will be uncovered and shared at South by Southwest in Austin, TX.

Holiday shopping gets a tiny bit easier this year as retailers like Sears bring holiday shopping to you as they install the Sears QR Toy Shop Shopping Wall to airports and street advertising locations near you.

Klout is Changing the World of Marketing with Klout Perks by allowing their advertisers a never-before-found opportunity to market directly at the Influencers of their industry. Klout is the standard for online and internet influence.

So it has been two weeks now since the Facebook F8 conference. If you watched it, you undoubtedly caught the mention of the integration between Spotify and Facebook.